Month: January 2020

Ooty the hill station town continues to be as one of the best destinations in India to spend time in summer. The town has hotels and guest houses to stay depending on one’s budget for backpackers, holidaymakers, honeymooner, film crews,…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the Padma Awards have become the People’s Awards as the awardees are nominated by the people of India unlike decided by few people in the national capital of New Delhi. In the eight episode…

Safdar Hashmi is also a symbol of resistance against authoritarianism. Hashmi was born on 12 April 1954 and died on 2 January 1989. He was a playwright, director, actor, lyricist, theorist, activist, and journalist (he worked for India’s premier news…

QUICK TAKE By Bikash C Paul REAL STORY BEHIND CAA-NPA It is beyond doubt, both the Narendra Modi government and BJP have put forward stout defense in favour of CAA and NPA. The arguments broadly go like this: …

“The sustainability framework should permeate all aspects of institution building among the Universities of the world. Indian Universities can play a global catalytic role for promoting sustainable futures given the significant demographic situation that prevails in India. This is further…

Mikhail Zoshenko’s Sentimental Tales, translated from Russian to English by Boris Dralyuk, is published by Columbia University Press in New York, USA. The book has six stories: Apollo and Tamara, People, A Terrible Night, What the Nightingale Sang, A Merry…

The Scandinavian countries have started to attract people from the Indian subcontinent for education and employment though they are non-English speaking countries. Because of the size of the India in terms of land and its people, Indians are in visible…

THE AMAZING STORY OF THE MAN WHO CYCLED FROM INDIA TO EUROPE FOR LOVE is the title of a biography of a man named PK Mahanandia written by Per J Andersson. The book tells about PK Mahanandia’s journey from rural…

Valmiki is one of the revered figures of religious India. The maharishi or great sage is reckoned to be the author of one of India’s greatest epics – Ramayan(a). Ramayana precedes Mahabhrat(a): the former was set in Treta Yuga and…

Protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) were carried out by a group of different organizations including transgender, queer and Adivasi. Anjali Bhardwaj the activist said the protests will continue in the country until the law is repealed. She…